# Run Docker Engine in swarm mode — Configure the advertise address

> Manager nodes use an advertise address to allow other nodes in the swarm access to the Swarmkit API and overlay networking.

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Manager nodes use an advertise address to allow other nodes in the swarm access to the Swarmkit API and overlay networking. The other nodes on the swarm must be able to access the manager node on its advertise address.

If you don't specify an advertise address, Docker checks if the system has a single IP address. If so, Docker uses the IP address with the listening port 2377 by default. If the system has multiple IP addresses, you must specify the correct --advertise-addr to enable inter-manager communication and overlay networking

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```console
$ docker swarm init --advertise-addr &lt;MANAGER-IP&gt;
```

You must also specify the --advertise-addr if the address where other nodes reach the first manager node is not the same address the manager sees as its own. For instance, in a cloud setup that spans different regions, hosts have both internal addresses for access within the region and external addresses that you use for access from outside that region. In this case, specify the external address with --advertise-addr so that the node can propagate that information to other nodes that subsequently connect to it.

Refer to the docker swarm init CLI reference for more detail on the advertise address.

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